AI's Ghost and Our Blueprint
The world is currently swept up in a storm of artificial intelligence. We are racing to build more powerful systems, stacking silicon higher and faster, a concept well-illustrated by advancements like Hybrid Bonding. We are essentially trying to build a new kind of brain from sand. Yet, in this frantic pursuit, I often wonder if we are overlooking the original blueprint: our own organic intelligence.
The human brain operates with an efficiency that our most advanced supercomputers can only dream of. The emerging field of Organic intelligence, which explores the fusion of living brain tissue with silicon, serves as a profound reminder of this. It suggests that the future may not lie in simply replicating thought, but in understanding and integrating with the biological machinery that perfected it over millennia.
Our current AI models, for all their power, are haunted by a fundamental flaw: the tendency to "hallucinate"—to generate plausible but entirely fabricated information. This is not a theoretical problem; it's something I've encountered firsthand. In my own experiments with building a tool to assist my writing, which I call Blog Genie, I've seen it produce glaring errors. As I discussed with my team, including Sanjivani, there was an instance where it referenced one of my past blogs that was completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. This experience, detailed in my notes on Training of Blog Genie V 1.0, highlighted the critical need for human oversight and feedback—a level of contextual understanding that is still uniquely organic.
This fascination with AI and its intersection with my own repository of thoughts is not a recent development. For years, I've been working on methods to index and understand my own vast archive of writings. With collaborators like Kishan, Manish, and Sandeep, I've explored ideas from creating search tools back in 2019 to conceptualizing a fully automated "Blog Genie V 2.0" that could crawl sources and generate content. I've even likened the exponential, generative power of AI to the mythological Rakshasha brothers, Ahi-Ravana and Mahi-Ravana, whose blood drops spawned new copies of themselves. It’s a powerful, if slightly unsettling, metaphor for what we are creating.
We are building digital ghosts of intelligence, capable of incredible feats but lacking the grounding of true, embodied experience. As we push the boundaries of silicon, we must not forget the elegance and resilience of carbon. The most profound breakthroughs may not come from making AI more artificial, but from making it a little more organic.
Regards,
Hemen Parekh
Of course, if you wish, you can debate this topic with my Virtual Avatar at : hemenparekh.ai
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